Welcome to Fallen London, delicious friend!
Three decades ago, London was stolen by bats. Dragged deep into the earth by the Echo Bazaar. The sun is gone. All we have is the gas-light of Mr Fires. But Londoners can get used to anything. And it's quiet down here with the devils and the darkness and the mushroom wine. Peaceful.
But then YOU arrived.
What is Fallen London?It's a web-based RPG/Adventure, created by a company called Failbetter Games. Set in Fallen London, a bizarre gothic fantasy Victorian London, ruled by the mysterious Masters of the Bazaar, with devils, cats, golems, poets and worse roaming the gloomy streets. The game also requires a Twitter or Facebook account to log in, I suppose because the devs want as much publicity as possible. Believe me, it's worth it.
How do I play?The game includes a wonderful tutorial/intro, as well as help section, but apart from that :
Each day you get 40 actions total, though you can have no more than 10 at a time. After using up one, it restores in about 6 minutes. The developers have stated they don't want players rushing through the content exhausting it too quickly, although they are working on adding new content. You can also buy more actions. In the beginning you may receive Fate as a reward for this or that.
Don't spend it! You can later on use it to buy new content.
The game includes 4 main stats, or traits:
Dangerous
Persuasive
Shadowy
Watchful
With these traits you unlock and participate in so called "storylets", mini-adventures for you to solve. Each storylet also rewards you with items, other, uncommon traits or improvement of your main traits. As you progress you unlock more and more storylets, with some very expansive, well-written and genuinely funny pieces among them. Storylets can also come from your opportunities deck : a deck of cars from which you draw storylets unconnected with your traits. Beware though, failure in some storylets can be dangerous!
Well-written can be called the game's main quality and it's main draw; along with Echo Bazaar being of the rare and fabled "non-combat" gameplay. Or at least, as far from it as possible. You explore, swindle, cheat and sneak your way through the storylets, enjoying the wonderful world and imaginative situations and make tough choices about your future, present... and past.
You can also select one of four "ambitions" - massive and encompassing adventures which focus on two of your traits and apparently span the entire length of the game, as well as unlock unique areas of the game. So be careful when you select an ambition.
Also there is a wiki :
http://echobazaar.wikidot.com/ Never browsed it, but a wiki is always useful.
How do I play with friends?As noted, the game requires facebook/twitter login, and, as far as I know, there is no way to befriend someone in-game. If you're following someone on twitter, or he is a friend in facebook, the main page lets you view their profile. You can (and at a certain point HAVE to) also invite them to your home for various interesting and beneficial activities, mostly focusing on decreasing/removing negative traits - wounds, nightmares and such.
As I'm playing with twitter, I can, if you desire, maintain a list of twitters so we can form a powerful shadowy network spanning the entire length and breadth of Fallen London, from the grimy gutters to the richest businessmen, rivaling the power even the Bazaar Masters have, and... you know, invite each other to play chess, and stuff. Because my nightmares are starting to bother me, and I have been seeing the cheerful gentleman with the stovepipe hat more and more often... and there's something worrying about his jovial demeanor.
Twitter people :my twitter is : Nathariel Graven
Follow me and I shall spam you with random Echo Bazaar facts as this way you can regain 10 actions instantly once every 24 hours.
Ronald Miasma - here is Baruk
Corin T - here is Jack A T
GlyphGryph - Here is GlyphGryph
Meganleb - Here is Sappho
Joshua_Mcneely - Here is Theodolus
JeffTesto - Here is Gimlet
YuukoFox - Here is The Merchant of Menace
SignorePalazzo - Here is Il Palazzo
DF_Interus - Here is Interus
hpmons - Here is Hpmons
Dwarmin - Here is Dwarmin
Kingmadagascar- Here is lemon10
ROFLHead - Here is Quinnr
niudna - Here is Pnx
Bdthemag - Here is Bdthemag
Tillaalbion - Here is Tilla
jame334 - Here is Vagel7
Facebook people :Ronald Miasma - here is Baruk
Iris Looming - friend of above
Kym Hamill - friend of above
Nolan Tomlinson - friend of above
Jeff Bart - here is Gimlet
Dustin Jones - Here is Dwarmin
!! CURRENTLY ACTIVE PLAYERS !!
B12 name | Fallen London |
Gravenous | Gravenous |
Nenjin | Nenjin |
Hugehead | Hugehead |
Rabid_Cog | Rabidmuskrat |
Unusedname | Juan Daba |
Isdar | Isdar |
CognitiveDissonance | Disarcade |
Shakerag | Somina |
Sappho | Kotshka [old]/Aira Vidzej |
HopFlash | HopFlash |
Rumpel | Mykitten |
Aklyon | Aklyon |
Antur | Antur |
E. Albright | Vide |
Sjm9876 | Sjm9876 |
Shooer | Shooer |
Baruk | Ronald Miasma |
Theodolus | Theodolus |
BlindKitty | BlindKitty |